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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.